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This page was set up after I offered to mirror
Hoody's
noble effort of archiving the first year of Arachne Chat.
You've probably arrived here because you know about Arachne, but if not you
should check out the Arachne homepage
and the UK Arachne support
site. The Arachne Chat archived here
is a mix of techie and social messages from users all around the world.
The mail list is
also now archived for the really techie stuff.
Arachne is browser and e-mail software with dialler for DOS, with the whole download
fitting on one floppy diskette. It has an enthusiastic following among those
who keep their Windows software, equipment needs and use of bandwidth to a
minimum. To others the benefit might be the quick start-up to send and receive
e-mail where the phoneline is shared. If you're debugging broken Windows then
Arachne can help keep you connected and has a graphical "point-and-click"
user interface. Experienced users often prefer to use the fast navigation provided
by Arachne's keyboard shortcuts.
Arachne is developed in Prague, Czech Republic by Michael
Polak (King Michael / The Master /
HizzOnner). Prague's local
time is used for Arachne Chat -- this is one hour ahead of GMT during winter,
two hours ahead during the summer.
Arachne Chat commenced in February 1999. It has been more of a message board than
a chatroom, which means that usually all new messages can be read with one visit per day.
The monthly digests will take some time to display in your browser -- you can download
the individual digests and/or the 1999 archive as zipfiles for reading offline. (Update, September 2007:
due to spiders hogging my bandwidth allowance, the HTML digests have been removed. Humans may
download the zipfiles and deal with them offline.) While I think about it, you may be interested in
ViewHTML, a fast
and small freeware offline browser. It works in DOS, with additional functions under
Windows. You will really save yourself time using it for these large Chat files.
The January 2000 archive was the largest so far, and beyond the
capabilities of ViewHTML :-( To read it you might like
to try View by
Malcolm Drury.
Anyway, down to business:
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